The only way I can explain to myself why the EU Commission would choose to humiliate Europe by accepting the 15% tariff is that they hope to appease Trump enough for him to maintain US security commitments in Europe. If that’s the reasoning, then it implies that Europe correctly

It's actually a pretty complicated question (both politically and in various practical ways) how we should deal with the romanization of Chinese characters in things like library cataloguing, academic citations, even just writing about things that were written in Chinese, etc.

Hong Kong independence would have remained a inconsequential minority opinion if China didn't make it clear Hong Kong's distinct cultural identity no longer had a place in Chinese society.

@zeemlei They even have trouble visiting their own capital. Unfortunately because of ideological blinders many will deny the parallels to Palestinians. x.com/WaWardaWa/stat…

Every dumb motherfucker who thinks this should be asked why this would lead to peace. This was tried before.

Talking to a centrist Chinese Americans and normie Han guys you meet in college the solution to the Uyghur “issue” is the exact same as the Israeli solution for Palestine with knife crime statistics and islamism rhetoric to boot.

The New York Times just published a terrible op-ed on Taiwan this morning. There were so many basic and egregious errors. Of course it did not represent any views from Taiwan. Here are some edits—

If you're using AI to write essays, something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday, I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Viewing Takaichi's statement as a provocation requires internalizing Beijing's cognitive frame (i.e. the cognitive frame of a totalitarian ultra-nationalist party state), viewing what China's Osaka Consul-General posted as a provocation requires basic reading comprehension

So 問題 can have different meanings 1. question 提出問題 (raise question) 2. problem 解決問題 (solve problem) 3. issue 環境問題 (environmental issue) 4. matter 個人問題 (personal matter) Me when I read or hear the phrase 台灣問題🤷‍♂️ #Taiwan not the problem

Can we have a tweet like this where instead of coding they go there to open a bakery or something?

The biggest danger, in the longer term, is that availability of "good enough" leads to us giving up on training people who can eventually aspire to be better than the AI standard, or set up AI as our new priestly class and treat LLMs as *more* authoritative.

With PLA drills earlier this year, one notes the PLA did not hold off on drills in order to avoid impacting the Great Recall Movement either. I generally suspect this point to that PLA drills DO NOT occur as a reaction to anything that occurs in US or Taiwanese politics

Another example of ignorance or arrogance, this time from Financial Times. “Former Soviet Republic”- what is the point to highlight this? 35 years (!) have passed since we restored our independence after soviet occupation. Does your office in Frankfurt report on former East Germany too?

What do you know, Financial Times went ahead and published my little letter to the editor.

🇨🇳 defenders like to point to bilingual signs in “XUAR” and “TAR” as proof there’s no colonialism, apartheid, and genocide there—just like how hasbara bots point to Arab/Hebrew bilingual signs in Israel to whitewash its crimes. Now the former can’t even do that anymore.

I read a book about Tove Jansson's correspondence with her fans. She received about 1500-2000 letters every year. She tried to answer them all, which became a significant burden professionally. But if she didn't reply, she'd feel too guilty to be able to concentrate on her work.

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